The #mainstreaming web - the #dotcons, corporate platforms, and now “AI empires”, already decided what kind of world they want: closed, extractive, and controlled. Every click feeds surveillance, every tool is rent-seeking, and every new “innovation” is built to enclose people and community in someone else’s business model. It’s efficient, yes, but only for those who own the platforms, the #nastyfew

The #mainstreaming web - the #dotcons, corporate platforms, and now “AI empires”, already decided what kind of world they want: closed, extractive, and controlled. Every click feeds surveillance, every tool is rent-seeking, and every new “innovation” is built to enclose people and community in someone else’s business model. It’s efficient, yes, but only for those who own the platforms, the #nastyfew

#Indymediaback isn’t just a media project — it’s a reminder that we can still build our own networks, tell our own truths, and refuse the enclosures of fear and control. It’s composting the wreckage of #mainstreaming into fertile ground for new, open media gardens.

#Indymediaback isn’t just a media project — it’s a reminder that we can still build our own networks, tell our own truths, and refuse the enclosures of fear and control. It’s composting the wreckage of #mainstreaming into fertile ground for new, open media gardens.

People should care about the #4opens as they are a simple, practical defence against enclosure and #mainstreaming bullshit. They are the minimum principles that keep the #openweb — and any project that claims to be “open” — actually open, alive, and accountable.

The #fashernista crew take and dispoal anything that starts to grow in the alt.
That’s the pattern: spot the spark, capture it, smooth the edges, and sell it back as lifestyle.

They move fast - faster than we do - and by the time you notice, what was radical has been turned into content, branding, and funding portfolios.

If you’re working on something that matters, an alt tech project, a grassroots network, a commons, mediation before they move in.
Defend your work, your world, and your dreams before they’re commodified into polite irrelevance.

Because make no mistake, it’s happening to something you care about right now.

#OMN #openweb #4opens #mainstreaming #trust #commons

The #fashernista crew take and dispoal anything that starts to grow in the alt.
That’s the pattern: spot the spark, capture it, smooth the edges, and sell it back as lifestyle.

They move fast - faster than we do - and by the time you notice, what was radical has been turned into content, branding, and funding portfolios.

If you’re working on something that matters, an alt tech project, a grassroots network, a commons, mediation before they move in.
Defend your work, your world, and your dreams before they’re commodified into polite irrelevance.

Because make no mistake, it’s happening to something you care about right now.

#OMN #openweb #4opens #mainstreaming #trust #commons

The #mainstreaming is hallucinating. Let’s be very blunt, these people are not important as individuals. What matters is the path they push us down. The “commonsense” they sell is poison. Every time we let them set the frame, our spaces collapse back into #stupidindividualism or #NGO capture. https://hamishcampbell.com/the-mainstreaming-communication-is-hallucinating/

The #mainstreaming is hallucinating. Let’s be very blunt, these people are not important as individuals. What matters is the path they push us down. The “commonsense” they sell is poison. Every time we let them set the frame, our spaces collapse back into #stupidindividualism or #NGO capture. https://hamishcampbell.com/the-mainstreaming-communication-is-hallucinating/

Good faith in activism

It’s interesting to think about the idea of good and bad faith when dealing with people in change and challenge interactions. If you spend time in life doing activism, this will be an ongoing, unpleasant reacuringing relationship. When pushing aside, pushing back, #mainstreaming there will be a lot of bad faith coming at you, your good faith is the best and likely only defence.

Why does this matter? On the wider picture, we are now past the point where the #mainstreaming paths and crew have effectively given up on mediating #climatechaos. We need to compost lies with #4opens horizontal networks https://hamishcampbell.com/we-compost-lies-to-build-4opens-rooted-local-horizontal-networks-of-resistance-and-renewal/

The #4opens makes many people uncomfortable. Why? Because it cuts through the bullshit. Think about it:

#FOSS already runs most of the world’s information flows..Servers, networks, phones, clouds — all built on open code, open standards, open processes. The world already depends on openness.

Yet, when we bring this into activism, NGOs, or “progressive” tech, people recoil. They prefer managed openness - consultations, workshops, endless talk - while the real decisions stay hidden, careers protected, power intact. That’s not open, that’s control.

The #4opens is dangerous because it removes the masks:

Open Data: no hoarding.

Open Code: no black boxes.

Open Standards: no silos.

Open Process: no backrooms.

It’s common sense. But it kills the comfort of #mainstreaming. The soft power of gatekeepers shrivels under sunlight. That’s why they hate it.

We already live in a world powered by #FOSS. The only question is whether we keep pretending otherwise, or compost the mess and take openness seriously.

https://unite.openworlds.info/Open-Media-Network/4opens

The problem with pushing diversity isn’t diversity itself — that’s essential. The problem is the ideology shaping the push.

#Mainstreaming liberalism reduces diversity to checklists and branding: rainbows on logos, token casting, #NGO strategies that look good on paper but leave power untouched. That’s not liberation. That’s management.

In these spaces, debate collapses into suspicion and accusations. Instead of solidarity, we get #blocking. Instead of building, we burn out. This is worship of the #deathcult: optics over substance, control over grassroots struggle.

The path is compost. Take the liberal tokenism, the reactionary backlash, the burnout — and compost it into something alive. Ground diversity in lived struggle, not corporate slogans. Use the #4opens so co-option is harder and collaboration messier but real.

The shift from “Woke Capital” to “MAGA Capital” shows how fragile branded diversity is. It flips with the political wind because capital doesn’t care about values — only profit.

The #OMN path is different: federated, grassroots, resistant to co-option. Diversity as lived strength, not a management tool.

The question is simple: keep chasing the spectacle, or compost the mess and build something alive?

https://hamishcampbell.com/mess-and-more-mess-diversity/

#OMN #openweb #deathcult #4opens #KISS